WHY DO YOU NEED TO SLEEP AND DREAM?

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REM sleep
part of the sleep cycle with rapid eye movements caused bye eyes moving a lot behind the eyelids when dreaming occurs
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sensory blockade
in REM sleep, all incoming sensory information is stopped
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circadian rhythms
human body rhythms that have a daily cycle, such as the sleep wake cycle
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sleep wake cycle
a circadian/daily rhythm generally triggered by the day night cycle
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ultradian rhythm
rhythms that occur in a period of less than 24 hours, such as a sleep cycle
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endogenous
internal pacemakers; our biological clock
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melatonin
a hormone involved in setting circadian rhythms, including the sleep wake cycle and blood pressure
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pineal gland
a small endocrine gland that produces melatonin
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exogenous
extrenal clues in the enironment that affect our biological clock
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zietgebers
extrenal clues that synchronise our biological rhythms; for example, to a 24 hour clock
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entrainment
when biological rhythms are matched to their environmental triggers, such as circadian rhythms set in response to external cues
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insomnia
problems with sleeping at night that cause difficulties during the day
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narcolepsy
inability to control sleeping and waking, so experiencing involuntary daytime sleeping
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cataplexy
a loss of muscle power and tone, triggered by an onset of strong emotions such as laughter
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id
the part of freud's personaltiy theory that is demanding, thought of as 'i want...'
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manifest content
the story the dreamer tells of what happens in the dream
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latent content
the deeper meaning behind what it is said the dream is about
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dreamwork
the transformation of unconscious thoughts into dream content
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ego
the part of freud's personality theory that is reasoning, to balance demands of the id and superego
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psychosexual stages
freud's theory of child developmrnt
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phallic stage
the third of freud's stages during which the oedipus complex is worked through
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oedipus complex
part of freud's phallic stage; a boy has unconscious feelings for his mother and hates his father, who he sees as a rival and fears will castrate
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in REM sleep, all incoming sensory information is stopped

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sensory blockade

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human body rhythms that have a daily cycle, such as the sleep wake cycle

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a circadian/daily rhythm generally triggered by the day night cycle

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rhythms that occur in a period of less than 24 hours, such as a sleep cycle

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